Newly aquired guitar day, Yamaha Tele style

I've been wanting another humbucker guitar and I just got this in today.
Yamaha 120SD model.
From what I can find out it was made in the early to mid 90s ,basically a lower end Pacifica I guess.
The description said MIJ but a label on the bottom back says Taiwan, not a deal breaker, it's still a nice guitar.

It's lightweight, has a nice comfortable medium C shape neck, rosewood fretboard w 22 medium jumbo frets.

The pickups sound pretty good, though the neck pu seems hotter than the bridge, hopefully a pickup height adjustment will fix that.

It needs a good cleaning , some new strings and some set up but it should be a fun cheap axe , one that I won't worry about getting dinged up.
I think I'll put on a set of heavy knurled Tele style knobs that I have laying around and I have an extra GK midi pu to mount on it so I can use a Tele style guitar with my Roland GR55!

I'll try to post some better pics soon, these were quickly taken.

Great score Ringo! I nabbed one of those about a year ago in a pawn shop. I had big plans of upgrading the pups, etc, but woulnd up selling it and doubling my money.

It was a real nice guitar though...not even with a 'for the money' added...just a great playing, good sounding guitar. A friend of mine who makes his living with a little in home studio has the single coil (more like a 'real' tele) model. He told me many a guitar player recording there has left their guitar in the case after playing his...and it's bone stock. I've played that one a few times and heard it on several recordings and it is a nice one. He got it for $100 when GC was closing em out.

Anyway...congrats Ringo. Have fun with that bad boy!

very cool looking..i love the minimalist appearance: strictly business..
yamaha makes some pretty sweet acoustics too;
and a lot of "bang for the buck"

That's an excellent choice!

I've got a couple of Tele-style guitars, Pacifica PAC 102S & 120S:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/skb/misc%20stuff/Guitars/pacificaPAC120s.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/skb/misc%20stuff/Guitars/brondie_brackie3.jpg

I like the ergonomics of both guitars, everything seems to be easy to reach without getting in the way.

Nice, Ringo! Congratulations!

...I have an extra GK midi pu to mount on it so I can use a Tele style guitar with my Roland GR55!

I wanna hear!

I had one in black for a while, nice guitar.. MIM quality at a no name price.
IIRC a LA area jazzer played one as his main axe for a number of years.

I'm digging the guitar, I adjusted the pickup height which balanced the volume better, sprayed some cleaner lube into the pots, (mini pots ) and no more scratchiness.
For now I'm just going to clean it up , adjust the action and play it.
Down the road I might change the pots , tone cap and switch out if I change the pickups.

I really like the feel of the neck, I don't like thin wide flat radius necks, this one has a fairly fat C shaped neck that just feels good!